KENT, Wash. — A Sikh man said a gunman approached him as he worked on his car in his suburban Seattle driveway and told him to “go back to your own country” before shooting him in the arm. /2 — Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) March 5, 2017She said she had spoken to Rai’s father, who told her Rai is out of danger and recovering in a hospital. In 2012, a man shot and killed six Sikh worshippers and wounded four others at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee before killing himself. The Sikh Coalition, a national civil rights group, asked local and federal authorities to investigate the shooting in suburban Seattle as a hate crime. “We’re all kind of at a loss in terms of what’s going on right now, this is just bringing it home,” Singh told the newspaper.

Source: National Post March 05, 2017 16:42 UTC